Goans dminated in the colonial administration of British ruled Kenya, Uganda and German ruled Tanganyika. The story of Goan migrants to East Africa is among the most astounding episodes in Indian diaspora history. A tiny percentage of of migrants from the subcontinent (themselves never more than five percent of migrants from the sub-continent of the overall population), path breakers from the Konkan, played an oversized role in colonial expansion, and later the anti-colonial push for independence. Aquino De Braganza was a crucia idelogue and negotiater for Mozambique's freedom fighters. A G Gomes invented the "gomesi", now the national dress of Uganda. But most incredible is the record and legacy of Goans in Kenya. Yesterday in Paradise by Cyprian Fernandes is an elegiac but no-holds-barred chronicle of when "Goans dominated in the Colonial administration of British-ruled Kenya, Uganda and German Tanganyika ... the colonial administration would ha...
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